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Re: Honesty

From: Chris Roach
Date: 15 Oct 2011
Time: 06:52:14 -0500
Remote Name: 166.147.65.139

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Hi, Julie, thanks for your kind comments. Interesting question on asking how I prepared or planned to initiate honesty with my speech. When I first rejoined the agency (RE: Returning to the Lion's Den, ISAD 2009), I immediately disclosed to new colleagues my stuttering then went about my work. But in deciding to disclose it in front of serious large audiences in my public speaking was a spontaneous decision at first! Faced with swelling fear and anxiety (my normal life's reaction in these events), I made a decision on the fly to risk what I knew would be potentially either incredibly humiliating or incredibly liberating! Guess what happened? It was both simultaneously. Then each time, the proportion of liberating began to out shadow that of the humiliating to where now I'm where I feel at peace and ease with it. I do practice, based on each audience, how I want to introduce it and realize that as anxiety starts growing before I stand up, that's my mistake--anticipating, planning, projecting, etc. so I stop pre-thinking about the stuttering and refocus on the content only. Long answer, I know, but great question. Practice only for content and substance, not the stuttering...that should be the takeaway. Julie, thanks again! Chris


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